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Matthew Rosenberg

Matthew Rosenberg is a Pentagon Correspondent for The New York Times. He previously covered Afghanistan for the paper before being expelled from the country in 2014 at the order then-President Hamid Karzai, who was angered by Mr. Rosenberg's reporting. Prior to his remo​​val, Mr. Rosenberg managed to slip in a fly-fishing trip in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, and dubbed the country's first international boxing match the "Squabble in Kabul" (like the fight, the name has not gone down in the annals of boxing history)​. More

Matthew Rosenberg is a Pentagon Correspondent for The New York Times. He previously covered Afghanistan for the paper before being expelled from the country in 2014 at the order then-President Hamid Karzai, who was angered by Mr. Rosenberg's reporting. Prior to his remo​​val, Mr. Rosenberg managed to slip in a fly-fishing trip in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, and dubbed the country's first international boxing match the "Squabble in Kabul" (like the fight, the name has not gone down in the annals of boxing history)​.

​Mr. Rosenberg previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press, and spent much of his career overseas, covering stories in South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. He has won the George Polk award for military reporting and was part of a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for stories about the Islamic State.